SAP NW Newbie

Good news from Microsoft PowerShell Team! Microsoft will be supporting SSH on Windows. The solution is in the planning stages and the date of availability is not known yet. If I am reading the announcement from the PowerShell team right,  you can SSH into a Windows box from *nix and vice-versa. Hopefully key based authentication using PuTTY will be possible as well. In case you can't wait, there are third party solutions available right now, such as  PowerShell Server , that support SSH and SFTP in to Windows. Windows 10  has already brought in "drag to select text", ctrl-c and ctrl-v to the command prompt; and now this announcement! I hope this also means SFTP and SSHFS support. Then we could finally say goodbye to SMB! This is a really helpful support to system admins from Microsoft! Share it on Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn

SAP Admins have to constantly log in to the server at OS level to carry out their every day tasks. A normal setup of SAP landscapes involves tens and hundreds of servers and logging on to these servers using passwords is error prone or slightly delayed by requiring to access password vaults. A simple solution is to use public-private keys to authenticate the users. You generate a key pair. Keep the private key a secret and upload the public key on the server. Then use the private key while logging on through PuTTY. Because you are keeping Private Key a secret, server accepts connections via the Private Key to recognize you. To set this up we first need to create the key pair Download PuTTYgen  and start it Click on Generate button to generate public and private key pair Move the mouse cursor to generate randomness Save the private key and copy the public key (or save the public key) We now have the key pair Place the Public Key on the server Log on to t...